salpêtre
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin sāl petrae, from sāl (“salt”) and petra (“rock, stone”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsalpêtre m (plural salpêtres)
Verb
editsalpêtre
- inflection of salpêtrer:
Further reading
edit- “salpêtre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.